Scaphinotus velutinus
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Scaphinotus velutinus, the velvet snail-eating beetle, is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America (California, Oregon), where it inhabits coniferous forests. Adults are brachypterous. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Redwood National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Velvet Snail-Eating Beetle sighting in Redwood National Park on a given day, based on 25 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 12th most-seen of the 101 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Velvet Snail-Eating Beetle in Redwood National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April and December–February, the lowest months. Those are among Redwood National Park's driest months, with about 85 mm of rain a month against 360 mm in January.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Velvet Snail-Eating Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Redwood National Park, in our data
Redwood National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Velvet Snail-Eating Beetle sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Velvet Snail-Eating Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Redwood National Park (25 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
